Outreach!!!

Ok everyone they have finally given us an answer to the 'where the heck are we going?!' question...Istanbul, Turkey! As far as dates when we are going that is still unclear...at least to me haha but we are all so happy that we finally have a place to go and to start learning and praying about :) So Hurray and I'm sure God will do amazing things while we are there!

We started local outreach on Wednesday and I am in a small team that goes into the town Largs to help out with the local youth in a youth cafe called the Helter Skelter. Unfortunately the owner of the cafe had to leave for America on very quick notice because his daughter had been involved in a car accident :( ...and also the people there have to look over some child protection stuff to make sure it's definitely OK that we volunteer there. So instead of that we went into Largs and handed out free bouquets of flowers to people for valentines day. When I gave mine away to a lady it took some convincing that I wasn't asking for money and I didn't have any hidden agenda rather than wanting to give her flowers haha. I thought it was kind of funny but in the end she seemed quite happy to receive them so that was nice.

Today has been a good day so far...we started class a bit later today so that was nice to be able to just sit for a moment, listen to music, and read my bible. We also started a group exercise thing that they call triplets (so we split up into groups of 3 in case you didn't catch on ;) ) and just hang out and talk together about anything really. I loved this exercise, not to mention it gave us a chance to get outside being that it is a beautiful sunny day here in Scotland!

In about an hour we have work duties and then a good chunk of our group will be leaving for the weekend to go and help out at a program called Fire Starters in Glasgow for the weekend. A few of us have decided to stay here, including me, to spend our weekend in other ways. Personally I just want to relax haha. Also, being that I have weekend work duties we cannot go too far so castle hunting will have to be postponed for another weekend. However, Kari and I are now thinking about going into Largs and hanging out there for a bit and searching the local book stores and any other stores this cute ocean side village holds :)

I hope all of you back in the home land are doing well. Missing all of you and I am loving the comments you are sending me!! :) God Bless

-Kaitlyn